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Americans have gone from working for the weekend to working on the weekend, as new survey research from Enterprise Rent-A-Car illustrates. Their survey of 1000 Americans found that approximately 70% worked at least one weekend a month, with 63% saying that their employer expected them to put in time on an average Saturday and Sunday.

Factoring in age and sex also yielded interesting results. Even if they weren’t physically present in the office or checking their email, 74% of respondents between 25 and 44 said they couldn’t stop thinking about their work on the weekends, while only 39% of those closing in on retirement age reported the same. Even when we aren’t working, we’re obsessing about the work we’ve done and that which we need to do, it seems.

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Younger respondents (80%) were even more likely than older ones (52%) to say that weekend was the only time they really lived their lives. Overall, that still leaves the majority of workers feeling as if they’re trying to do the bulk of their living in a scant 48-hour window. Men, it seems, are more successful than women at meeting this challenge, as 45% reported that they devoted the bulk of their weekends to pursuing their passions and hobbies, while only 20% of women could claim likewise.

Instead of spending less time working, we’ve moved in the other direction, letting our jobs take over our lives and trying to convince ourselves we're okay with that. As Miya Tokumitsu recently wrote in a New Republic piece that discusses Elizabeth Anderson’s Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk About It) and James Livingston’s No More Work: Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea:

“We can try to convince ourselves that we are free, but as long as we must submit to the increasing authority of our employers and the labor market, we are not. We therefore fancy that we want to work, that work grounds our character, that markets encompass the possible. We are unable to imagine what a full life could be, much less to live one.”

What is perhaps most striking about Enterprise’s survey results is not that employers are able to demand more time, energy and attention from their workers in return for shrinking autonomy, stagnant wages and declining job security. Instead, it’s the reality that the bulwark that we had been clinging to against this encroachment, the modern weekend, is weakening. Our precious weekend freedom is becoming scarcer even as we try to cram more of our non-employee identity into its shrinking borders. Ponder that as you watch the clock this afternoon.